We performed a comparison between IBM Cognos and Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools."The basic platform comes with several meta-modelling tools."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"The product is a very good reporting tool and is very flexible. It allows for the users to get a scheduled report."
"It has a very powerful edit feature which allows users to back out of changes (undo) without forcing them to recreate entire reports."
"Cognos' most valuable features are the bundled studios, simple UI, and advanced features like the ability to create data modules."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"The most valuable features of IBM Cognos are governance and enterprise reporting."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"Once you do the budget in Oracle ERP, you can upload it, but it's easier to create and manage budgets in the Oracle budgeting tool itself. For example, if you have a shortfall in the budget, it's easier to manage that and the forms, too, especially if you also have Oracle Forms Management. You can get the forms from somewhere and then transform those forms into budget heads."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud are the many capabilities it provides."
"It gives you an end-to-end solution from integrating data from the source system to reporting. So it's a highly recommended tool."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is ad hoc reporting."
"The workforce, the cube database, is the most valuable feature where you do planning for your headcounts."
"The product has a direct plugin to Microsoft Excel."
"The most valuable feature is the data integration in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud."
"Beneficial analysis and easy to do management adjustments."
"I would like for the platform to become more standard. If we make a development on our report and our dashboard, it will not be used in another solution. That means there is no portability for the developers."
"I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality."
"Chart quality: many other competitors have charts and graphics that look much better and that provide dynamic effects. Cognos doesn't."
"I would like to see the introduction of mapbooks for supporting some geographical information."
"We would like to see development of the product's UI function, to make it more of a UI tool that can be configured as required."
"Extending dynamic cubes aggregate awareness with calculated measures."
"It would be nice to offer free online training on the tool for end-users."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud could improve by having better integration with some other modules that we would add to this solution."
"Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud could improve. There are times when the forms are slow in saving and calculating."
"The FR recording studio that is used to build reports is clunky and awful to use. This could be improved a lot. The solution does have problems and limitations."
"There is middleware that we need to purchase for our use case that should be provided in Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud. We should not have to purchase the additional solution and the integration should be seamless."
"The tool's interface is outdated. However, OneStream is easier to navigate."
"For HR, the workforce planning out of the box is complicated. For most users, it's not easy, and it requires a learning curve. It's not very user-friendly. It can be improved."
"There are some issues with block creation in the memory. Sometimes, when we run a calculation and a new intersection is hit during the calculation, the memory block doesn't get created, which doesn't give the correct result."
"One potential improvement would be a more visual workflow, as the current method using a tax list is not as effective."
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IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews while Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is ranked 3rd in Business Performance Management with 17 reviews. IBM Cognos is rated 8.0, while Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud writes " Budgeting scenarios and versions helps us migrate data, visualize data, and do variant reporting". IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion, whereas Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud is most compared with Oracle HFM, Anaplan, Oracle Hyperion, IBM Planning Analytics and CCH Tagetik.
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